Ludmila, honey, I'm so sad to hear of your loneliness. That must totally suck. I have a friend that's very interested in meeting you, but you'll have to come here. You despair seems so complete that I feel it would be worth the trip. He's really nice. What do you have to lose?

Mail order brides / prostitutes have always been fair game, I believe._________________The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
- Charles Darwin

super-intelligent canine?_________________bi-chromaticism is the extraordinary belief that there exists only two options
each polar opposite to each other
where one is completely superior to the other.

I knew a guy who met a "lonely russian" online. When he went to conferences in Europe he would fly her out. He was, coincidentally, married at the time. We wondered why he went to so many European meetings. He got a divorce and actually brought her over, but I haven't heard anything for a while. He wasn't the nicest guy in the world -- dumped his first wife soon after she came down with a chronic disease.

But what they really wanted, and what most imagined they would find in Ukraine, was a fusion of 1950s gender sensibilities with a twenty-first-century hypersexuality. Along with everything else, the men had heard that the women here were “wild,” “uninhibited,” that being with them was “a whole different ball game.” As always, Dan the Man had done his part to stoke this fantasy, peppering his talk of traditional values and wifely devotion with just the right amount of lasciviousness. “I’ve heard stories from all the guys who have been married to them, and they all say the same thing: they definitely are much, much, much more passionate, much more open-minded,” he told us at one point. “This guy, he’s been married for six, seven years and his wife is just as crazy, they have threesomes all the time.” The vision was Madonna and puttana rolled together, an American male desire shaped in equal parts by the Promise Keepers and Internet porn.